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3 unusual facts about Polignac


Cadet branch

Also, marriage to cadet males of the Houses of Oldenburg (Holstein-Gottorp), Polignac, and Bourbon-Parma brought those dynasties patrilineally to the thrones of Russia, Monaco, and Luxembourg, respectively.

Charles-Joseph Natoire

In 1728 he painted for the French ambassador, the prince de Polignac, an Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple.

Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan

She married Denis de Polastron 1758–1821, half-brother to Yolande de Polastron, countess, then duchess of Polignac, governess of the royal children (known as the Enfants de France) and intimate friend of the queen.


Aglaé de Polignac

Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac (7 May 1768 – 30 March 1803) was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the favourite and confidante of Marie Antoinette, and her husband, the 1st duc de Polignac.

Armand-Albert Rateau

The furniture that he designed in 1928 for Lanvin's apartment on rue Barbet-de-Jouy in Paris was donated by Prince Louis de Polignac to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1965.

Armande de Polignac

Armande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud.

Jean-François Jacqueminot

Elected to the House of Deputies in 1827, he joined in the protest of the Two Hundred and Twenty-one against Polignac, and with Pajol directed the Rambouillet expedition which led Charles X to leave France.

Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac

Born at Claye-Souilly to Louis Héracle Armand de Polignac, Marquis of Mancini and his wife, Diane Adélaide Zéphirine Mancini herself a granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers and the Duke of Noailles.

Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois

Born at the Château de Kerscamp, Hennebont, Morbihan, France, as Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac, he was the fourth son and youngest child of Count Maxence Melchior Edouard Marie Louis de Polignac (1857–1936) and his Mexico-born wife whom he wed in Paris in 1881, Susana Mariana Estefanía Francisca de Paula del Corazón de la Torre y Mier (1858–1913).


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